'Provide common toilets at offices'
Speakers at a seminar yesterday emphasised on the need for providing 'common toilets' instead of 'individual toilets' at offices.
They also asked Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) to cancel existing 'lease system' of public toilets for their better management.
WaterAid Bangladesh and Centre for Urban Studies (CUS) jointly organised the seminar at a city hotel to disseminate the findings of a study on public toilets in the mega city.
"The lease system of all 47 functional DCC public toilets should be annulled immediately to improve toilet facilities for nearly 55 lakh people who use those everyday," said Engineer Taksim A Khan, managing director of Dhaka Water and Sewerage Authority.
The study found that out of an estimated 150 million people, one of each three require public toilet facilities 24 hours a day.
ActionAid Country Director Farah Kabir; Dr Nurul Islam, DCC's former deputy project director for public toilet; Prof Nazrul Islam, noted urban planner and chairman of University Grants Commission; Advocate Rahmat Ali, chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on LGRD and Cooperatives; WaterAid Country Director Dr Khairul Islam; also spoke, moderated by Shyamol Datta, editor of the daily Bhorer Kagoj.
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